RHETOR 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Comparative History, Pseudoscience, Chinese Encyclopedia
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Michel"s foucault work departed from what people expected from a philosopher. Les mots et les choses words and things (cid:498)archeology of the human sciences(cid:499) fields of sciences overlooked by historians. Had impact on how historians of hard sciences were thinking about the historical and systematic description of rules the foucault identified underlying the actual scientific and scholarly discourse. Second title, his preferred title had been taken. Not a book about science and practice, but a systematic attempt to describe the patterns, rules and laws underlying the structure of the formation of knowledge. Power to question fundamental assumptions human scientists had shared for centuries. What is new about the order of things. Study of the human sciences and a systematic history of non formal knowledge. Comparative history of regions of knowledge production. Study of implicit philosophies and the unconscious of science. Calls archaeology of knowledge because he looks at regularities and distributions of knowledge formation within a certain period.
